Ryan hit 90 once, according to pitch f/x’s supposedly uber-accurate measurements. He averaged 89.3. His velocity is still not back. Props all around though, that 1-2 pitch was unquestionably the best slider (please stop calling it a slurve just because that sounds cool for the love of god) Ryan has thrown in some time. In terms of movement, it’s pretty much a normal slider, and not the cutteresque thing Ryan has thrown all season (circled):

Except there really was at least one very favorable call- the last call on Denard Span (when he spun away in frustration) doesn’t look bad on that chart but it was because Span’s measured top of strike zone is just under 3.2 instead of the 3.5 league average that I usually use, and it came in around 3.3. Sorry, this would be a much less shitty post if there wasn’t massive amounts of Wiffleball in my immediate future…

Ward and patch only has the normal, wussy, holes-all-over, balls. They don’t move at all and are just kinda unsatisfying when you hit them. If you wanna play, we go every Wednesday, just email me. I’m also considering starting a league over the winter because T.W.A.T seems to have folded.

Was the pitch that Snider hit in the 3 -2 count against Nathan the other night a slider or a splitter? Doesn’t really matter – just curious. Memory says the announcers kept calling it a slider but a poster on BB says it was a splitter, which makes more sense from my memory of it too. Just wondering if you could clear that up.

I remember him hitting a ridiculous pitch not in the strike zone yesterday for that RBI single, but I was so riled up after he did so that I had no real recollation of what kind of pitch it was – just that it was one you really shouldn’t hit with authority. Great 2 strike approach.

Not do be pedantic, but I wonder how much of that is approach, and how much of it is just mad skills. He can’t have been looking for that, or even thinking about it- but what a ridiculously good swing to put on that pitch. I guess staying back counts as approach.